Director Denis Villeneuve brings his second part of the
Dune story to the big screen, and unlike the forst part this movie doesn't have to deal with a pandemic and opens to just over £9 Million.
The original movie which was delayed until 2021 took £5.8 Million on its debut, at the time this was good for a movie after all the COVID19 cinema closures.
Last weeks top movie, Bob Marley: One Love, falls to second place this week after 2 weekends at the top, the movie has taken an excellent £4,2 Million in total box office grosses.
Madame Web hangs on for another weekend on the top 5 bit with a total gross of only £3.9 Million it will be one of the lowest grossing superhero movie in the modern era.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Dune: Part Two (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Dune: Part Two (@1)
- Longest run - Wonka (13 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wonka (£62,877,753)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Wicked Little Letters (-29%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £14,044,055
- Also new this weekend
- Sami Swoi. Poczatek
- Painting the Modern Garden - Monet to Matisse
- Lisa Frankenstein
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 1st - 3rd March 2024
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £9,279,080 over its debut weekend
- It is the 7th top debuting movie in the month of March
- The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Dune which took £5,876,892 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,351,557 over the weekend, a 43% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £13,760,796 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,172,890 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £4,259,564 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £961,524 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £17,590,513 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Remains At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £246,538 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £3,916,755 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 12th top grossing film so far in 2024
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Dune: Part Two - £9,279,080
- Bob Marley: One Love - £1,351,557
- Wicked Little Letters - £1,172,890
- Migration - £961,524
- Madame Web - £246,538
- Wonka - £143,379
- Hamlet - £134,742
- Manjummel Boys - £124,319
- The Zone of Interest - £110,215
- Perfect Days - £109,910
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ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
